The phrase "amounts of discussion" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct expression would typically be "a lot of discussion" or "a significant amount of discussion."
Example: "There were amounts of discussion about the new policy, but no consensus was reached."
Alternatives: "a great deal of discussion" or "extensive discussion."
There have been huge amounts of discussion about this, and it is something I looked at some years ago in my work the way that men have started this skin bleaching that had previously been seen as something women did.
All main effects, the βj coefficients, were positive and significant at the 1% level, except direction, which was significant at the 5% level, showing that increased amounts of discussion for each attribute were associated with increased utility (attributes are monotonically increasing in levels).
Just before Christmas, an editorial in the New Statesman by Brian Cox and Robin Ince led to a surprising amount of discussion, albeit amongst a fairly specialised audience.
There has been a fair amount of discussion about how high the income level that is considered "middle class" by both candidates has become, to some two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
The reading of the inscription has spurred a healthy amount of discussion among scholars, but Tabor and Jacobovici's interpretation of one of the carvings has been rejected outright.
The abortion debates, as they have evolved and hardened over the past five decades, have generated a vast amount of discussion about pregnancy.
Twenty years later, there is a vast amount of discussion on the Web, much of it in the form of comments and reviews.
"As soon as he pulled his hands out from behind his back, the amount of discussion and length of it increased two-fold," she recalls.
In the week since Ronen Bergman's article was first posted, there has been an intense amount of discussion and reaction, predictably varied in tone and point of view.
